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Eels and the Korean People

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There are two species of freshwater eel in Korea (Kim et al. 2005): the Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica) and the giant mottled eel (Anguilla marmorata). Their general distribution is compared with sea surface temperature during the glass-eel migration in Fig. 7.1 (left).

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Lee, T.W. (2014). Eels and the Korean People. In: Tsukamoto, K., Kuroki, M. (eds) Eels and Humans. Humanity and the Sea. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54529-3_7

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